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[calimac]

It's another article on Tolkien.

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[(Anonymous)]

I have encountered a very few other Hobbit fans who were initially confused or disappointed to find that Bilbo was not the main character of The Lord of the Rings, and I vaguely recall feeling a little bit like that myself. I suspect this happens most often with fairly young or new readers (like Kakaes, I think I was nine): I had not read much else that I really liked before The Hobbit, so that I was inclined to be skeptical of anything that departed from what I liked about that book.

-MTD/neb

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

I was pretty young too - I was eleven, which I later came to feel had been inadvisably young for me, at least, to tackle something as large as The Lord of the Rings - but I can't recall feeling disappointed about anything in it. I was too in awe of the scale and majesty of what I was reading to have any critical feeling at all. And, as I've mentioned, I'd already been told this was a book about one Frodo, instead of Bilbo.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

For the record, I'm another nine-year-old who didn't know and was actually quite profoundly disappointed; Bilbo had my loyalty, after all he'd been through in The Hobbit, and not even the author was entitled to gift that loyalty to some other character I knew nothing about. Frodo had to earn it, first time through, and it took a while.